[M.147L]                                                              [M.147]	House opposite Ca D'Oro	147
                                                                      
                                                                      		To return.  The capitals fig 1 have boy’s heads, insipid,  and
                                                                      		the rude classical mouldings on their band marks a declining period
                                                                      		The shape of the great 4foils at fig 2  The lower cusps
                                                                      		of course sharp: and they have fillet both in 4foil and
                                                                      		arch. exactly as in house No 89.  But they are filleted
                                                                      Filleted		only, not trefoiled - both in 4 foil & arch  This is rare.
                                                                      Cusps		 Beside this 4foil finestrata there are 4 det 6th without
                                                                      		cusps, and I think originally so, for their masonry is as
                                                                      		fig 3 p 57 l.
                                                                      		In the lower story the five six at are pure 6ths with
                                                                      		very delicate leaf finials - all in Sq and have had
                                                                      		inlaid marbles now gone.  I suspect the upper story must
                                                                      		have been an addition.  Of these six the two lateral
                                                                      		ones are larger by some 4 inches than the rest & this
The unusualness of this pilaster in a 4foil finestrata makes me think it the whole		excess is thrown out so as to make the whole finestrata
added to correspond with lower;: if however as supposed below, the    		that much wider than the one above   In each story there
lower shafts have been restored, this is not likely: & the use of     		are 3 shafts & four pils. and the detached square pils
the pilaster would only mark a declining period.                      		are each on both angles.  All these pils have same
                                                                      		heads as the shafts down to a - but have no band:  of det.
                                                                      		windows also.  The foils cusps of these lower story 6ths are
                                                                      		trefoiled - and coincide with arch at top, not leaving fillet
                                                                      		and these capitals though of the Bon school are better cut:
                                                                      		They have however which is suspicious, the classical ornament

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